Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-27
Bill Nye on Butter,
AsHEv1LLE, n. C..

Dill Nyc Ou DuvICrs
AsHEv1LLE, N. c., 1887
MY DEAR SoN-I wish you would pleas.
change the address of my paper to tbi.
place, where your mother and I are now
staying. 1 got the Retina all right last
week, and see that you are going to enlaros
it, SO have sold my hay in order to Dr..
pare for the event.
What is your idea for enlarging the na.
per before the town enlarges? OF course
am no journalist, but have often thouph
that if had been doomed to issue pans,
like the Retiaa, and then answer at the b.,
of Judgment for it, would not get powe,
press till the town got good dark-blus
hook and-ladder company and a post.
Office.
hope you will not try to issue daily
paper, anyhow, till we see how stock looks
when grass grows again.
l like your editorial on "Mark Antony
first rate. can imagine how excited tbe
people of your town were when thew saw
the Retina Saturday morning and read
what your estimate of Mark was.
wish you would incidentally pick up a
few others of those old people and weigh
them. That is one Of the luxuries of run,
ming a paper yourself. You can speak
right out and walk all over these people. /
would like to hear what your honest conyic.
tons are in regard to Diogenes. It would
be worth almost what have put into your
paper as silent partner.
You can have no idea, Henry, how it
swells me up with pride and lofty disdain
to know that while l am sleeping calmly
under my roof tree, as heard man call
it once, you are showing up those old
frauds like Julius Caesar and Hamlet and
Portcullis and Andronicus and Mrs. Poti-
phar and other people who have become
historical.
While other people are frittering away
their time talking about highway tax and
boards of health and all such stuff as that
you are making a red-hot paper of to-day;
paper that fairly boils over with your
honest convictions about the political as
pect at the time that Caesar took charge Of
the tribune; paper that shows the average
reader that you are smart, whether you give
them the kind of stuff they want or not.
That was my idea when sent you away
to that Female Seminary, or whatever it
was, where you went to get educated. l
wanted you TO come out with whole lot
of thoughts that showed right on their face
that they were expensive. wanted you to
be able to tell down at the store how much
A, B, and G would each have to grind of
circular grindstone four feet three and
hole in the center three and one-fourth
inches each way, provided A pays one.
sixth Of the price of the stone, b one-half,
and G the balance, with the understanding
that G shall use five per cent. more than his
share, provided he will turn the grindstone.
wanted you to be able to talk with for
eigners in their own native tongue the
darkest night that ever blew. desired
that you might become man who could
walk up to an Italian as he plays his organ
voluntary beneath your easement and tell
him in his own musical alarm-clock Ian.
guase what you think of him.
So it pleases me to know that you are
printing q paper now, 30 you can show of
to advantage what have invested in you.
Press right on. Keep writing up these
overestimated men like Moses, and do
not care what you say provided you rise
rapidly yourself, even if you do so upon
the wreck and ruin of such men as Demos.
themes and other people whom you will no
doubt show up before you get through.
hope you will lead up to Columbus and
Patrick Henry in time to get through with
them little ahead of the Sheriff.
After awhile want to write little arti-
Gle for your paper, not SO much for the
purpose of saying anything, but in order
to show the contrast between the polished
work OF well-educated, smart young man
and the crude efforts of plain man who is
entirely untitled for everything except pa.
ternal purposes.
We are having good time here in the
South, enjoying the climate and making
experiments with the butter which is pro.
duced here.
AS warm weather approaches the noun.
tam butter of North Carolina is getting its
hair cut short, and 1 can truthfully say,
Henry, that, although am no epicure as
general rule, have had my palate tickled
more since came here than I ever did be-
fore.
Butter made in the Businesses of the
hills in Buncombe County is mostly Of .
pale pearl gray, with pin stripe in it OF
ultramarine. This does net look badly,
and it sets off hoecake tirst-rate.
Inns butter is not eaten by the people
who manufacture it. They are poor some.
times, and have to eat most anything that
this butter.
Ihey know how it is prepared.
went out into the brush last week to
Duy load of wood, and took tea with a
gentleman who lives in an open-face cot.
tage on the other side of the mountains. !
then discovered that these people do not
eat their own butter.
1 did not notice any butter, but they had
gravy as substitute for it. Corn dodger
IN and OF itself will not melt in the mouth
so looked around for means of lubricat-
ing my own. At that time the warm heart
ca and hospitable host made the following
remark! !a Stranger, you mustn't be squeam'
i Isl just waller yer dodger in the dope
that's the way we do"
then proceeded to waller.
Easy, Because Natural.
Eastern lecture bureau manager ITO
latest addition)-@Now, don't forget to
introduce few remarks on temper
ance while in the West"
Lecturer.-"Can you suggest any
thing fitting?"
.Manager-"Well. yes; in high license
states Just call the peoples attention
P,r1onlbltion States remark upon the
l III 1T traffic in whisky; three-quarterss
OF the citizens are from the East, and
nothlng is quite so taking as . thrusss
a. NE state or municipal governments